catfan 14,793 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Will become illegal next week if you have children or young adults on board in ANY motor vehicle, & you smoke. Harking back to my bus driving days every day on a school run we would have nearly eighty kids puffing away.....................and the driver too ! I suspect this is another nail in the smoker's coffin ! BTW. I don't smoke anymore. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/smoking-in-vehicles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 How is this new law going to be enforced ? Haven't the police got enough to do without looking for people smoking in their cars while they have a "young" person on board ? The police can't even prevent people using their mobile phones while driving.(a law I agree with) P.S. I am also an ex smoker of six years. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 It's is easy council wardens will issue tickets if your stationery, more money for their coffers. I suspect it will also give the plod another reason to stop and check you. They won't really enforce the law in a proactive way just use it as an aid. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 When are they going to stop you breaking wind in your car? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 #1 know what you mean Catfan,mind you when I got off the 44 outside the king billy to go to work, my eyes were streaming some mornings!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Policing for profit?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 I think it's the PC brigade again ! As a seventeen year old I used to drive around in my car with a load of mates, all smoking, how could this new law be enforced in that situation. I accept what the PC brigade are saying about young kids in cars but eighteen year olds ? don't make me laugh. At sixteen years old teenagers could quite legally be husbands, fathers, members of the armed forces even be homosexuals if they wanted to, but they cannot smoke in a motor vehicle. Roll on the revolution. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Some people do smoke too much though 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Does this include "E" cigarettes ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 No, not e-cigs. From 1 Oct you must be over 18 to buy or sell e-cig stuff. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-rules-about-tobacco-e-cigarettes-and-smoking-1-october-2015/new-rules-about-tobacco-e-cigarettes-and-smoking-1-october-2015 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Engineer 614 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Apparently it will be legal for a seventeen year old to smoke if in the car on their own (assuming they have a full licence of course) and it's also OK in a rag-top if the top is fully down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 BW, that reminds me of the Cheech and Chong movies, Up In Smoke, etc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 There are ways round the ban 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Really is a nonsense, could be job openings for the migrants though.."ash for cash" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 #8. Is that a Volkswagon whose emission control has been reset? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 How many people have been stopped from smoking in company vehicles as the law states? how many people have been stopped from smoking in doorways of pubs,shops etc when the law states you cannot smoke outside within 15ft of an open door or window of said pubs and shops, probably none because the old bill have enough to do already Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRD 196 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Drivers should be banned from smoking altogether so they can have 2 hands on the wheel and not be flicking ash out of the window. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Yeah....and ban shop window displays and women in short skirts and gear levers and music and advertising and have yearly driving tests and MOTs every month and ban driving in heavy rain and on ice and in the dark and if you have a headache or a cold or arthritis.... In fact it would reduce accident figures if cars were kept stationary....they could charge for parking then. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRD 196 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Go pre 60's so you don't have a MOT at all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Limit all cars to a maximum speed of 30 MPH (even on motorways) 10 MPH in town centres. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 I wonder when the drinking of alcohol in pubs' will be banned. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 ...and is it still possible to buy a goose at the eponymous fair?! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 #17. Why, what about switching the radio on, winding the window up / down, switching wipers. lights on etc. etc. Ridiculous comment. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 What about blowing your nose.... I can easily do that and steer with my knees at the same time ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 I got confused some time ago when I read that Maggie Thatcher was going to Bancock. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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